The Structured Interview: Reducing Biases Toward Job Applicants with Physical Disabilities

Research shows that the traditional job interview is a poor indication of a candidate's potential. However, when employers structure the interview process, they are more effective at predicting success, forming consistent evaluations, and reducing discrimination. The current study tested whether the structured interview also serves to reduce biases involved in interviewing applicants who have a physical disability. In the non-structured interview, results showed that there was a leniency bias, where raters evaluated disabled candidates more positively than equally qualified non-disabled candidates. Structured interviews reduced this effect. These findings add to the support for the structured interview as a way of increasing fairness in employee selection.     

Mass tourism and the dilemmas of modernization in Pacific Island communities

This paper relates global discussions of tourism as a means of development to the history of cultural contacts in the Pacific. The paper reviews the relevance of the existing literature on social and cultural impacts of tourism to the Pacific and suggests implications for policy makers and community leaders. The existing literature is found to be methodologically suspect and does not provide helpful knowledge to policy-makers.     

Real Impacts of Intra-European Exchange Rate Variability: A Case for EMU?

Intra-European exchange rate variability has significant economic costs. VAR causality tests show that higher short-run variability of exchange rates against other EU currencies was associated with higher unemployment, less employment, and lower investment for most EU member countries. Robustness tests show that this result holds up in the presence of both policy instruments that might have had an impact on exchange rate variability and cyclical variables that might have influenced labor demand. A model that incorporates the option value of waiting suggests that even short-term spikes in volatility exert a strong impact on investment and labor markets.     

“入世”对温州民营企业的影响及对策

目前 ,下岗职工再就业问题已成为全社会关注的热点问题。本文以淄博市为例 ,对就业中存在的问题进行了分析 ,并针对这些问题提出了相应的对策建议。     

中国环境规制如何影响了就业--基于中介效应模型的实证研究

本文从产业结构、技术进步和FDI的角度,系统考察了环境规制对我国就业增长的影响路径,并构建中介效应模型,以1999－2014年省份面板数据为样本进行了计量检验。研究发现,环境规制对就业不仅存在直接正向作用,还会通过三个中介变量间接影响就业。环境规制通过倒逼产业结构调整间接促进就业,同时,环境规制通过刺激技术进步和抑制FDI间接削弱就业,但环境规制对就业的总效应为正。本研究对实现环境保护和就业双重红利这一目标有重要启示意义。     

解雇权的法律保障与规制

本文从比较法的角度对解雇权中的几个问题进行了探讨,重点分析了解雇权行使的条件、程序和效力问题,最后还结合《劳动合同法》对我国现行的解雇制度进行了反思。     

当前高校毕业生就业诚信与成功就业的探讨

通过对毕业生就业诚信意识淡薄;制造虚假证书欺骗用人单位;缺乏责任意识、不履行承诺行为等方面就业诚信问题及其原因作了详细的阐述,提出了解决就业诚信问题的对策。     

Does family employment enhance MSEs performance?: Integrating socioemotional wealth and family embeddedness perspectives

This paper analyzes the effect of family employment on performance in micro and small enterprises (MSEs) by combining two research perspectives that, until now, have been conducted separately: the family embeddedness perspective of entrepreneurship (Aldrich and Cliff, 2003) and the socioemotional wealth (SEW) approach to family business (Gomez-Mejia et al 2007). Our integrated perspective allows us to highlight how the nature of the employment relationships in MSEs enhances the benefits derived from the socioemotional endowment associated with family labor, and reduces the opportunity costs of employing relatives. Moreover, we assert that this relationship is moderated by specific family characteristics that determine the firm's ability to preserve the SEW, while at the same time pursuing financial goals. Our results provide partial support to the enhancing role of family labour on MSEs performance: employing family members increases sales but decreases profitability as measured by ROA. This effect also results in improved performance for women-led firms and for firms that have received family funding, but impairs MSEs performance when the business is the main source of the owner´s household income.